I think this might break the Chester County Internet. I had readers contact me this afternoon…oops she did it again. For real.
I mean FOR real? Burned a 3rd place? I mean I JUST HAVE to oops song it.
This is scary and ridiculous.
First Berwyn (Easttown).
Then Radnor Township (whatever that was.)
Now York.
Oh, and the DUI in SC?
She is literally not right, is she? If someone has already set fires and the courts are taking forever to get the cases heard is that fair to anyone?
How does someone go from beautiful young doctor/bride/wife/mother to the mugshots? And she was a doctor too?
Why do we have such inadequate mental health services in this country?
Original fire:
https://6abc.com/post/chester-county-fire-easttown-township-leopard-sugartown-road/15090808
House in December (my photo):
Photo from CBS affiliate (note the apartment is Tudor-ish):
Stuff from South Carolina:
Woman charged with arson in York-area fire also charged near Philly
York Dispatch
Updated Jan. 6, 2026, 4:31 p.m. ET
- A woman is charged with arson after she allegedly used a heat gun to start a fire New Year’s Day at a Spring Garden Township duplex.
- A firefighter was injured in that blaze and another resident was treated for smoke inhalation.
- Kathryn Frankel also faces arson charges in Chester and Delaware counties after fires there.
This time someone was hurt, a firefighter. And someone else had smoke inhilation.
I found the report from NBC affiliate WGAL in Lancaster particularly interesting and the article has a long video:
Police say Kathryn Frankel is accused of starting a fire using a heat gun in a home on Ogontz Street. They also say she has a previous arson arrest out of Chester County from 2024, also with a heat gun.
Details of the arson
Police said Frankel was living in the basement of the home on Ogontz Street when the fire started just after midnight on Jan. 1.
The fire department was dispatched for a reported basement fire, and upon arrival, they saw people trapped inside. Several residents had to be rescued, with some jumping from the second floor, and one person was hospitalized for smoke inhalation.
A firefighter was also hurt.
According to charging documents, witnesses told officers Frankel was acting suspiciously before the fire and tried to stop others from going into the basement.
Police say they found a pile of burning clothes and blankets on the floor, as well as seven burned aerosol cans and a can of lighter fluid.
Frankel admitted to being in the basement and using a heat gun in the area shortly before the fire started, according to the charging documents. Kathryn Frankel is charged with arson and recklessly endangering another person.
Look I am sorry she is so mentally ill. But she is not safe out on the street. Someone is going to die. Once again, she could have died, and this time others got hurt.
She needs to NOT be out on the street. This is not the first fire. She is not safe, she may never be safe with this hobby of hers, correct?
Below are the dockets. Imagine if the wheels of justice had moved a little faster? Maybe those people in York wouldn’t have been displaced. I hate to say lock anyone up, but she is a danger to herself and others. She went from high style on the Main Line to a basement apartment in York County, PA.
Here is the York docket:
Here is the Chester County Docket:
Here is the Delaware County Docket:
So, no one knows from what the Delaware County docket stems? Presumably, she started a fire there, right? And, has she been charged with the first fire at the Berwyn property or just the July 2024 fire?
What are you talking about? Read the docket. The charges are pretty clear.
The docket from Delaware County has an offence date of 2025. My question is for what property is that charge. It doesn’t seem as though that would be related to the Berwyn property since the fires there took place in 2024 in Chester County.
The tone of your response seems as though my question intended office. I’m not sure why.
Yes, because she did something in Delaware County too just read the docket
I located and read this Delaware County docket prior to it being posted here. The charges are clear, not the location. That is what I was asking. It appears that fire didn’t make the news.
No, it didn’t make the news. And yes, it was a fire. It wasn’t to a structure. Somebody told me it was like a car or something? She’s just messed up and it’s a shame like she was literally a doctor, but she’s going to hurt someone if not herself. So this is like three counties and fires so wow I hope they get her help right?
So unfortunate. I started following because I’ve been curious about the Berwyn property and why nothing has been cleaned up for so long. Thanks for the continued coverage!
Well, I can honestly tell you with regard to the Berwyn property. It takes a long time to work through these cases because you have different levels of investigators that would be like in the county or local and then you have the investigators for the insurance companies so there’s a really big process. For example, we have people that live not too far from where we live that literally had a tree fall on their house with one of those straight line wind storms a 3 years ago, and it took literally like more than two years to get everything approved so they could start rebuilding. So all of this stuff when it comes to things like this with Holmes it just takes a long time and the fire scenarios take the longest. Now I do know that the property was sold and it’s settled and it’s new ownership so I think you’re going to see movement because they really can’t save anything. Sadly I just hope that they reuse the stone from the house to give something of the history back.
Hopefully, the exposure to the elements hasn’t ruined the chance that the remaining historical elements can be saved.
Honestly, I think maybe Stone might get saved, but I would say that would be about it
It’s not related to Chester county it’s a separate incident